Vapnik

Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник) is one of the main developers of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory. He was born in the Soviet Union. He received his master's degree in mathematics at the Uzbek State University, Samarkand, Uzbek SSR in 1958 and Ph.D in statistics at the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow in 1964. He worked at this institute from 1961 to 1990 and became Head of the Computer Science Research Department. At the end of 1990, he moved to the USA and joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&amp;T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey.

… Facebook’s artificial-intelligence unit, Facebook AI Research, announced the addition of Vladimir Vapnik, from the University of London. The hire was announced in a post on the Facebook AI Research page, in which Vapnik was pictured with Yann LeCun, who was tapped to lead the social network’s AI lab last December: We are delighted to announce…